ghc-8.0.1: The GHC API

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LanguageHaskell2010

Name

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Description

GHC uses several kinds of name internally:

Names are one of:

  • External, if they name things declared in other modules. Some external Names are wired in, i.e. they name primitives defined in the compiler itself
  • Internal, if they name things in the module being compiled. Some internal Names are system names, if they are names manufactured by the compiler

Synopsis

The main types

data Name Source #

A unique, unambigious name for something, containing information about where that thing originated.

Instances

Eq Name # 

Methods

(==) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

(/=) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

Data Name # 

Methods

gfoldl :: (forall d b. Data d => c (d -> b) -> d -> c b) -> (forall g. g -> c g) -> Name -> c Name Source #

gunfold :: (forall b r. Data b => c (b -> r) -> c r) -> (forall r. r -> c r) -> Constr -> c Name Source #

toConstr :: Name -> Constr Source #

dataTypeOf :: Name -> DataType Source #

dataCast1 :: Typeable (* -> *) t => (forall d. Data d => c (t d)) -> Maybe (c Name) Source #

dataCast2 :: Typeable (* -> * -> *) t => (forall d e. (Data d, Data e) => c (t d e)) -> Maybe (c Name) Source #

gmapT :: (forall b. Data b => b -> b) -> Name -> Name Source #

gmapQl :: (r -> r' -> r) -> r -> (forall d. Data d => d -> r') -> Name -> r Source #

gmapQr :: (r' -> r -> r) -> r -> (forall d. Data d => d -> r') -> Name -> r Source #

gmapQ :: (forall d. Data d => d -> u) -> Name -> [u] Source #

gmapQi :: Int -> (forall d. Data d => d -> u) -> Name -> u Source #

gmapM :: Monad m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> Name -> m Name Source #

gmapMp :: MonadPlus m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> Name -> m Name Source #

gmapMo :: MonadPlus m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> Name -> m Name Source #

Ord Name # 

Methods

compare :: Name -> Name -> Ordering #

(<) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

(<=) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

(>) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

(>=) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

max :: Name -> Name -> Name #

min :: Name -> Name -> Name #

OutputableBndr Name # 
Outputable Name # 
Uniquable Name # 
Binary Name # 
HasOccName Name # 

Methods

occName :: Name -> OccName Source #

NamedThing Name # 
type PostRn Name ty # 
type PostRn Name ty = ty
type PostTc Name ty # 

data BuiltInSyntax Source #

BuiltInSyntax is for things like (:), [] and tuples, which have special syntactic forms. They aren't in scope as such.

Constructors

BuiltInSyntax 
UserSyntax 

Creating Names

mkSystemName :: Unique -> OccName -> Name Source #

Create a name brought into being by the compiler

mkSystemNameAt :: Unique -> OccName -> SrcSpan -> Name Source #

mkInternalName :: Unique -> OccName -> SrcSpan -> Name Source #

Create a name which is (for now at least) local to the current module and hence does not need a Module to disambiguate it from other Names

mkClonedInternalName :: Unique -> Name -> Name Source #

mkDerivedInternalName :: (OccName -> OccName) -> Unique -> Name -> Name Source #

mkSystemVarName :: Unique -> FastString -> Name Source #

mkSysTvName :: Unique -> FastString -> Name Source #

mkFCallName :: Unique -> String -> Name Source #

Make a name for a foreign call

mkExternalName :: Unique -> Module -> OccName -> SrcSpan -> Name Source #

Create a name which definitely originates in the given module

mkWiredInName :: Module -> OccName -> Unique -> TyThing -> BuiltInSyntax -> Name Source #

Create a name which is actually defined by the compiler itself

Manipulating and deconstructing Names

nameUnique :: Name -> Unique Source #

setNameUnique :: Name -> Unique -> Name Source #

nameOccName :: Name -> OccName Source #

nameModule :: Name -> Module Source #

nameModule_maybe :: Name -> Maybe Module Source #

setNameLoc :: Name -> SrcSpan -> Name Source #

tidyNameOcc :: Name -> OccName -> Name Source #

localiseName :: Name -> Name Source #

Make the Name into an internal name, regardless of what it was to begin with

mkLocalisedOccName :: Module -> (Maybe String -> OccName -> OccName) -> Name -> OccName Source #

Create a localised variant of a name.

If the name is external, encode the original's module name to disambiguate. SPJ says: this looks like a rather odd-looking function; but it seems to be used only during vectorisation, so I'm not going to worry

nameSrcLoc :: Name -> SrcLoc Source #

nameSrcSpan :: Name -> SrcSpan Source #

pprNameDefnLoc :: Name -> SDoc Source #

pprDefinedAt :: Name -> SDoc Source #

Predicates on Names

isSystemName :: Name -> Bool Source #

isInternalName :: Name -> Bool Source #

isExternalName :: Name -> Bool Source #

isTyVarName :: Name -> Bool Source #

isTyConName :: Name -> Bool Source #

isDataConName :: Name -> Bool Source #

isValName :: Name -> Bool Source #

isVarName :: Name -> Bool Source #

isWiredInName :: Name -> Bool Source #

isBuiltInSyntax :: Name -> Bool Source #

isHoleName :: Name -> Bool Source #

wiredInNameTyThing_maybe :: Name -> Maybe TyThing Source #

nameIsLocalOrFrom :: Module -> Name -> Bool Source #

Returns True if the name is (a) Internal (b) External but from the specified module (c) External but from the interactive package

The key idea is that False means: the entity is defined in some other module you can find the details (type, fixity, instances) in some interface file those details will be stored in the EPT or HPT

True means: the entity is defined in this module or earlier in the GHCi session you can find details (type, fixity, instances) in the TcGblEnv or TcLclEnv

The isInteractiveModule part is because successive interactions of a GCHi session each give rise to a fresh module (Ghci1, Ghci2, etc), but they all come from the magic interactive package; and all the details are kept in the TcLclEnv, TcGblEnv, NOT in the HPT or EPT. See Note [The interactive package] in HscTypes

nameIsHomePackageImport :: Module -> Name -> Bool Source #

nameIsFromExternalPackage :: UnitId -> Name -> Bool Source #

Returns True if the Name comes from some other package: neither this pacakge nor the interactive package.

stableNameCmp :: Name -> Name -> Ordering Source #

Class NamedThing and overloaded friends

class NamedThing a where Source #

A class allowing convenient access to the Name of various datatypes

Minimal complete definition

getName

Methods

getOccName :: a -> OccName Source #

getName :: a -> Name Source #

Instances

getSrcLoc :: NamedThing a => a -> SrcLoc Source #

getSrcSpan :: NamedThing a => a -> SrcSpan Source #

getOccString :: NamedThing a => a -> String Source #

getOccFS :: NamedThing a => a -> FastString Source #

pprInfixName :: (Outputable a, NamedThing a) => a -> SDoc Source #

pprPrefixName :: NamedThing a => a -> SDoc Source #

pprModulePrefix :: PprStyle -> Module -> OccName -> SDoc Source #

nameStableString :: Name -> String Source #

Get a string representation of a Name that's unique and stable across recompilations. Used for deterministic generation of binds for derived instances. eg. "$aeson_70dylHtv1FFGeai1IoxcQr$Data.Aeson.Types.Internal$String"

module OccName